A CGI-fest

Rating: 5/10 (17 October 2013)

Monsters known as Kaiju come from a deep rift in the Pacific Ocean and wreck havoc over the entire planet. World governments get together to build giant robots called Jaegers to combat the Kaiju. Inside the robots are 2-people who act as left-sided brain and right-sided brain because one person alone is not capable of handling the Jaeger. The ultimate goal is to close the rift and be rid of the Kaiju.
There is no other way to say it: this is a CGI-fest. There are some acting scenes and they are pretty good by all. What was most annoying were the 2-scientists whose constant bickering almost made me align myself on the side of the Kaiju. Hey, I said "almost."
The 2-scientists Charlie Day as Dr. Geiszler and Burn Gorman as Dr Gottlieb could possibly start their own stand-up comedy team except for one thing: they weren't funny and were highly annoying. They could have been handled in a better way, but weren't and this goes to prove that comedy is hard to do. And, to make matters even worse they talked so fast no one could possibly understand what they said.
The hero is Charlie Hunnam (never heard of him before) as Becket and his love interest is Rinko Kikuchi (never heard of her before either) as Mako. They form the team to go into the ultimate Jaeger to defeat the Kaiju and to try to drop a nuclear bomb into the rift and close the bridge to upper earth. Idris Elba is Stacker Pentecost but is referred to as Marshall, at times, in the movie and he does a credible job as the person in charge of everything. Ron Pearlman as Hannibal Chau was in here and it is not clear what his purpose was. Maybe most of his scenes were cut and we were left with wondering why he was cast.
Most of the movie is CGI with battle scenes after battle scenes and they are very good, but when it goes on for too long, too often, I tend to go into La La land when that happens. This movie is also in 3-D but the DVD I had wasn't. Bummer.
If you are a CGI Nerd, this is for you. If the battle scenes were shortened , a better rating would have been given. They just go on for toooooo long. Hey, I'm yawning here. Can't you tell?
But, here's the thing: Let's say the bomb works (and, I'm not telling) and the bridge is closed, the Kaiju would still be down there waiting for another opportunity to come up again. The movie did indicate that the Kaiju were not acting on instinct, but were commanded by higher-ups in their species. Would you like to live on a planet where this scenario exists? Huh? I know some will say it's only a movie. Right? (5/10)
Violence: Yes. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Language: No.